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Oh, now THAT’S just too perfect! Bonus points for the recycling aspect!
Smart as hell!
Win! And it looks like a Sprite or Mountain Dew bottle to boot!
Sierra Mist.
Beats the change you get recycling this thing @ the sanitation dept! Love it! Heck yeah!
I wonder what they do with stray bottle tops…
damn u and ur free change!!!!
i recycle but noooooooo
I’d like to know what’s holding the hose in there?
Duct Tape ofcourse.
Looks like plumber’s tape, which is like duct tape, only for watery stuff.
brilliant!
Definetly two thumbs up for recycling/re-using.
@Guy – Airframe tape.
noooooo its duct tape of course
stray bottle tops make terrific cat toys. There are probably 30 of them under my furniture right now.
uno de los inventos de la Pila Maino Pimstein!
@McGuyver5000 Well, of course it’s a Mt. Dew or Sprite bottle. It’s a “green” project, is it not?
reminds me of when my brother and i were kids. we would make slip and slides using hefty bags, double-sided tape and tent stakes to hold it down. just put the garden hose to it and voila…hours of fun…at least until dad came out and hogged it for himself. i don’t know who had more fun, my brother and me or our dad. good times!!!
That is genius!!!
Better hope it’s decaffeinated or the garden gnomes will be up all night.
that is awesome *off to purchase a two bottle of Coke to try it out myself*
@mort — Thanks for sharing.
pretty nice that thing, i´ll give it 8 of 10 stars
Hell to the yeah! Spanking brilliant.
make it commercial and youll become a selfmade millionaire!
hahahahaha – GRAND!!
Now I know why they’re called Burpee seeds.
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This reminds me of the rubber balloons which attach to a garden hose and are used for blasting blockages out of sewer pipes.
Is it crazy that I think this is actually a really good idea? So rad.
I don’t see anything wrong with this fix. Go Green!
This is NOT the way to add lime to your soil.
@dono1
Don’t stop him now ladies and gents, he’s on a roll!
I did a similar hack some time ago. Just that it wasn’t a bottle, but an old garden hose punctured at strategic places with the end closed.
I recycle my sprite bottles almost in the same way.
1) fill half of a sprite bottle with water.
If you do it near your bushes you can also water the plant and entertain the kids.
2) use a champagne or wine cork and pass a foot air pump chord through it
3) Stick cork in bottle
4) turn bottle upside down and have it hold like that using some kind of hand made ramp.
5) Pump a lot until the bottle blows high above the trees
genius!
I’m totally doing this. All over my garden! If you use a smaller bottle, do you get a different result? I’ll check it out.
“Dear Heloise…”
This is, quite frankly, awesome.
I was going to say dono 1 won with his first comment but Dear Heloise is pretty damn funny.
TOTALLY EPIC WIN!!! sheesh, I give it 2*10^25 out of 5 points for good engineering!! Now we got proof: MacGyver isn’t dead….
one of those times when a ‘there i fixed it’ has just the right touch of ingenuity
good times fixen stuff
Yep, that works. Guy: looks like it’s just wedged in.
Man! I’ve probably blown half a grand on sprinklers that don’t do the job. If it’s this easy & cheap I’m gonna invest in Coke products – after a good self dope-slap…duh, why didn’t I think of this?
Brilliant!! Probaly works a heck of lot better that a couple of the sprinklers we have at home right now. Going to give it a try. BTW, thanks!
Ingenious.
This is pure genius. I am going to try it myself tomorrow! (seriously…)
Omg!!!!!! i want one!!!!!!!!!!!
that’s actually pretty good… I might have to try that for my garden. custom sprinkler!
smart, and better looking than the ones they sell.
awesome
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wow. solves a major problem. thnx.
Sadly, my mother attempted this last week….she never returned.
Looks like crap but IT WORKS!!!!!! Sometimes dumb is smart.
That’s actually pretty creative! They get epic points from me!
Very nice kids will love that creation the next hot day
Can’t argue much if it actually works…Pretty creative re-purposing, actually.
Simplicity is Genius!
Looks like a redneck lawn sprinkler to me….
count me in!
why spend on stuff when u can get it for free?
Ya know, kudos to those who invented it. Its clever. Its functional. Its not dangerous. And it has a certain kitschy charm. I could see this on boingboing.net or makezine.com.
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a lot of people do that.
this actually is a great idea
Perhaps one of the only ones on this site, but kudos to the inventor, I think this a great idea!
This is actually a great idea \o/
Tio estas bona ideo. Tre kreive! – That is a good idea. Very creative!
brilliant idea but how do you get one of those ticking, rotating sprinklers from a plastic bottle???
Sheer genious! It’s in the small things the true nature of man comes out! Brill!!
i have thought about that, all you should need is a female-female adapter for the waterhose. i have never seen such a thing, but if they don’t sell them it would be easy to make from a couple old waterhoses, or parts from the hardware store.
A+ for recycling
A for creativity
F- for the amount of water its going to waste from inefficiency. To much water with poor distribution uniformity. You will waste more water than if you watered with your thumb over the end of the hose. Its not just about plastics, think of water too….
If you use big holes on one side and small holes on the other, I think it might roll if the pressure if high enough…